So for Christmas! Not because of Jesus or anything. I'm WAAAAAAAY to shallow for that... I just loooooove presents ! It's cool stuff... for free! I got Buffy, Bones, and Charmed on DVD (), a new watch, Mario Kart and Super Mario Bros. for Wii, Assassin's Creed and Band Hero for the Xbox (My mom, Austin, and I started a band. My favorite is singing. They have Jackson 5 songs!), an iPod Touch (!), the rest of the Neverending Series (a.k.a. Shannara), etc. But my favorite gift so far, surprisingly, has been the The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare! I decided on a whim to take a break from Shannara, since I blatently was not reading, and begin City of Bones. They're so good and very fresh. I personally prefer modern fantasy as oppose to archaic/epic fantasy (if you aren't familiar with my classifying system, modern fantasy is set on earth (ex.: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Word and the Void) where as epic/archaic fanatsy is set in an imaginary world (ex.: Shannara, Belgariad)), as I find them generally lighter and much less intense. I can deal with the intensity for a few books, but when there's a lot (*cough 17 *cough), it gets to be too much for my taste. Anyway, The Mortal Instruments classifies as modern, and I love them. Although, you can definately tell Clare is a young writer, her plot and characters and creature development are excellent. Very Buffy reminiscent if you ask me . So, moral: If you haven't read them, do it, and if you have, watch Buffy!